On the shore of Longgan Lake, the 535th Regiment of the 99th Division once again smashed the weak counterattack of the 27th Division. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

Surrounded by hundreds of thousands of Chinese troops and fighting for so long, Honma Masaharu's troops were already on the verge of collapse.

In the opinion of the regiment commander Xu Liang, the devils in front of the 535 regiment should choose to retreat and defend to the death. But what he didn't expect was that from beginning to end, these Japanese troops never stopped launching counterattacks.

It's just that the offensive looks like an errand at any point - no more than two or three hundred troops at a time, plus a messy artillery bombardment. How could an attack of such intensity break through the defense zone of the 535th regiment?

I don't understand what Masaharu Honma is doing this for...... Do you want to tell the Central China Dispatch Army Command that he is still working hard? Or to encourage his subordinates not to lose hope of breaking through?

Xu Liang also ordered his troops to launch a counterattack against Honma Masaharu's forces. But the devils, who are weak when attacking, are quite crazy when defending.

The two companies of the first wave of attack troops sent out were basically sacrificed under the devil's man-bomb tactics and indiscriminate artillery bombardment.

Zhang Haobu of the 531st Regiment, who had entered the landing ground with the 535th Regiment, had been ordered to move westward and attack the left rear of the 27th Division. Now only Xu Liang's main regiment and two companies of the 139th Division that arrived later remain on the tidal flats. Due to the lack of sufficient heavy weapons and the need to carry out the order to hold the landing site, Xu Liang finally had to give up the option of taking the initiative to attack and lead his troops to play positional warfare with the devils.

Stop where you are, and stay in place. For Xu Liang's department, which belonged to the 99th Division, they had never fought such a battle, and they were really not used to it.

After doubting for a long time, the officers and soldiers finally discovered the reason for the incident.

After Chen Cixiu took office, he issued a number of orders, and he replaced Huang Haoran in charge of the Wuhan Garrison Command, and the matter was revealed to the world.

No wonder he stayed on the back of the Honma Masaharu division for more than half a month, and the originally planned surprise attack was dragged into a war of attrition! It turned out that it was all because of the change of commander!

The officers and men of Huang Haoran's department were quite dissatisfied with this decision made by the military committee!

This sentiment directly led to the fact that all the officers and men of the 25th Group Army who remained in the Longganhu area were full of distrust of Chen Cixiu. This indirectly affected the combat capability of the troops.

Therefore, Xu Liang, as the commander of the regiment, could only use the battle break to run to various positions to relieve his subordinates. It has little effect, but it's better than doing nothing.

No, as soon as the devil's offensive retreated, Xu Liang appeared at the headquarters of the seventh company of the second battalion with the guard squad.

More than half a month of positional defensive warfare gave Xu Liang's troops plenty of time to dig fortifications. From individual pits to trenches, and then to dig connected communication roads, all sides are connected.

The location of the headquarters of the Seventh Company has even been expanded into a large bunker, covered with logs and dirt, and the camouflage is done quite well.

This was the masterpiece of the engineer company of the 535th regiment when it was extremely bored, and it took only half a night's work.

It can be seen that this long tug-of-war really suffocated the elites raised by Huang Haoran.

"Seven-in-a-row! It's a good fight~ I saw it in the telescope just now, at least more than 100 ...... killed"

Xu Liang, who shouted loudly at the top of his voice, did not get a response, and the commander of the seventh company sat on a few stones, facing the back of the position, silent.

Xu Liang walked behind the commander of the seventh company, patted the other party's shoulder hard, and then said with a smile: "Old Seven~ You are a dead thing...... This is the attitude towards me, the head of the regiment? ”

The commander of the seventh company turned his head and replied with a posture that saw through Xu Liang's intentions:

"Danza, what you just said is too false...... Where did you kill more than 100 devils? The total number of troops invested in the charge from the opposite side just now was less than 200 men, and you can see the machine gun I set up in the firing port, and before I could finish a single bullet plate, the little devil retreated. I think it would be nice to kill 10 of them......"

Xu Liang touched his head with his hand a little embarrassed, what he said just now was indeed a bit excessive, it seems that the commander of the seventh company is not easy to fool~

"The little devil retreated quickly, doesn't this mean that you have a good command?"

"In the last two or three days, which time has the little devil been unhappy? It's almost like a turtle's head, and it retracts when you touch it...... I am not worried about the attack from the opposite side at all, but the shells on the other side of the lake are more threatening to my company......"

said that it was too late, as if to cooperate with the words of the commander of the seventh company, the observation post on the position shouted loudly: "Anti-artillery!" Hide~"

The commander of the seventh company immediately jumped up and pulled Xu Liang to run outside the company headquarters, the Japanese artillery on the other side used 150 mm caliber heavy howitzers, and they only needed one shot to fall on the top of the bunker, and they could bury everyone alive at once.

In order to defend against the large-caliber artillery of the devils, the Seventh Company dug a lot of anti-artillery holes with a downward slope of 45 degrees in the position, and hiding in them could reduce the probability of being killed by shrapnel and strong pressure. Of course, it is better to pray not to be hit directly by shells. Otherwise, the gunholes dug in the dirt will likely become your grave.

The cannonballs flew fast in the air, and the rumble quickly reached the overhead, which was the loud explosion after landing. After the first ring, about half a minute apart, the second sound sounds. It is easy to distinguish by listening to the sound, and the shells fired by the devils are getting closer and closer to the main position of the Seventh Company.

"It's so fast~ It's really fucking accurate! There must have been an artillery observation post in that wave of devils just now, and if they had left it at the front of our position and served as an eye for calibrating the impact point, then the losses in this round would have been great......"

With such shelling, the commander of the seventh company now has to go through several rounds every day. He clearly felt that this time was different from the previous ones, and the devil's shell landing point was obviously corrected according to some instructions. If the Japanese are allowed to bombard like this, after the shelling, I am afraid that Xu Liang will have to transfer a new company to change the guard with the Seventh Company.

Xu Liang and the commander of the seventh company hid in the same anti-artillery hole, but fortunately, the hole was relatively large, and neither of them was fat, so they could squeeze in together.

Feeling the constantly shaking earth, looking at the dirt that kept falling overhead, because of the deafening explosions all around, Xu Liang could only shout loudly into the ears of the seventh company commander with his voice pulled out:

"When I came up, I saw a large earthen pit in the right front of the position, which should have been caused by two heavy shells falling on a point, which belonged to the shooting blind spot, and I saw that most of the devil's observation posts were hiding in it...... Seventh, you are really, in this kind of dark place under the lamp, you should throw two grenades into it when you have time, how can you leave it alone? ”

Xu Liang's criticism was very pertinent, but it aroused the long-suppressed anger in the heart of the seventh company commander, and he replied to Xu Liang loudly: "Just thinking about not being beaten is a fart!" I think Chen Cheng is a wreck! Two fully equipped infantry divisions can't take a brigade of devils across the lake! Now the Japanese are bringing in more and more heavy artillery, and my soldiers resisted the charge of the 27th Division, but they all fell under the shells of the devils! Tuanza! What do you say this TMD is all about......" (To be continued.) )